All bloggers are racists
Spirit of 76 uses Deborah Coddington's musings about blogging to spring into an attack on leftish bloggers for accusing rightish bloggers of racism.This phenomenon is the readiness of leftist commentators to refer to right wing commentators as racists, particularly when they start to get a bit heated. It arises time and time again and is always complete and utter baseless nonsense.Sorry Spirit, but the left has no monopoly on that. Here a Mr A. Lemur, from a site called Sir Humphrey's says criticism of the Iraq war in New Zealand comes from people who are anti-American, "approaching chronic racism really". Mr Lemur extends his charges of racism here. If you don't support the war on Iraq, you are a racist, apparently.
If you consider yourself a 'social democrat' but you aren't supporting the Iraqi people and United States Government in creating a democratic Iraq then you are a traitor to your movement and you are effectively siding with the theocrats of Iran, the fascists of Syria, and the various anti-democracy groups within Iraq itself. I also detect an element of racism amongst these leftists - as if they consider Arabs somehow inadequate as a people to create a democratic society.Talk about using charges of racism to try and shut down debate! Jeez, imagine what would happen if you criticised Israel!!
Personally I think all bloggers are racist. That's because I think all people are to some extent racist. To some degree I distrust people who deny this. I think what we call racism is hot-wired into us. To dislike and distrust outsiders as a survival instinct (I'm sure there'll be some research out there somewhere supporting this view ...). The trick is we have to fight against it because we have free will, morals, intelligence enough to know that our animal instincts are not necessarily our best guide any more.
For some reason while making this post Blogger went all German on me. Did you know "Edit Post" translates as "Bearbeiten" in German? But don't get me onto the bloody Germans ...
posted by Rob O'Neill at 3:57 PM
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ALL is a strong word
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Bear baiting used to be a popular sport in Germany.
There is no smart and quick remedy for the antagonisms of race or colour or religion. Tearing down the barriers and barging on in to change a nation is always worse than futile. Osmosis is the key: setting up and guarding a semipermeable barrier through which ideas can leak and waiting a century or two if necessary. That is still in these days of instant communication the timescale of change in cultures.
Couldn't agree more with your point about all of us harbouring a degree of intolerance or suspicion of the 'other' -which manifests itself in some as racism. However, I have to take issue with your claim that we have free will.
Yes we all have morals (of some sort or another, mostly they are just prejudices in fancy, self-righteous trappings), and most of us are blessed with at least a rudimentary intelligence, but the issue of free will is a little trickier.
I would claim (and I, naturally, have no choice about this) that there is no free will. Everything just is the inexorable expression of Nature and our delusions of free will are just a combination of hubris and denial. This is, of course, a contentious proposition, but it can be verified by rigorous analysis of one's thoughts and actions. Try, for example, to follow a thought and determine from whence it arises. It is an interesting experiment...
Ed
oops... posted this in the wrong thread (just my cunning plan to fill the world with non sequiteurs).
Funny,
We were talking about Germans only (the day before) yesterday (nobody mentioned the war), at our daily dog owning racist club meeting at a local park.
We couldn't decide what was more disheartening, turning up at a world famous tourist attraction (eg, the Pont du Garde) and arriving at exactly the same time as a bus load of Germans, a bus load of Japanese, or a bus load of Brits.
Although one enterprising fellow who clearly had a lot of time to kill there discovered that when a mob reaches a Brit component of 35% a general melee will inevitably turn into an orderly queue.
Hmmm, actually, I've tended to find that when a mob reaches a Brit component of 35% a general melee will inevitably turn into a fight to the death outside a kebab shop.
Maybe this 'fellow' hangs around parts of England I've not visited yet?
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